On Monday 28 June 2021 07:34:42 pm dep via tde-users wrote: > Greets, folks . . . > > This is a weird one. I unfortunately have the RAW-handling photo > application LightZone as forst in my RAW file association, so when I > accidentally clicked on a RAW file today it opened. (It didn't open that > file, btw, because LightZone is flaky and opens what it had open the last > time it was run, just one of several reasons I really don't like it.) I > tried to close LightZone, but it wouldn't close. I did 'killall > lightzone', but nope, still there. Mouse arrow turns to > point-left-horizontally when I enter the window. Top reports no LightZone > processes running. I have deleted LightZone and its configuration files. > Still no joy. > > I have a *huge* file copy underway -- should take the next 10 hours or so. > So I'd just as soon not reboot. > > Oddly, I can still moved the window around, maximize it, minimize it -- > just not close it entirely. It seems to have just enough aslive that I > can't get a "window not responding" error. Nothing inside the window, > which is to say in the program itself, responds at all. > > Whatcha think? > > Any idea how to kill it? > > I've never encountered such a thing before. > -- > dep > Ok you have a zombie exe. Here's what I do under your situation. Open konq as root, go to the lightzone binary and rename it .old then kill the app. It shouldn't respawn after that. Let me know if it works for you, Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
